Political Quotes

“Unbelievable. Not one of my friends on the other side, not one, in my opinion, has offered anything to combat global warming, to get us off foreign oil--not one. It is unbelievable. I checked the record. Let's hold up these charts on oil. Here we go again. It has been 7 years since George Bush took office, and gas prices have gone up 250 percent. I did not hear my colleagues on the other side of the aisle saying: Oh, my people are hurting, let's go to the oil companies; we know the executives are earning many millions. Nothing. Let's look at what happened in the past 9 months, since January 7: an 82-cent increase. My colleagues, silent. Now they are worried, just when we can get off foreign oil, just when we have a plan to do it, we can say goodbye to big oil, out of the stranglehold, oh, they are suddenly concerned because gas prices could go up 2 cents a year, which, by the way, is the outside limit and we know, because of fuel economy we passed, is not going to impact our people. Let's look to June 2007. The Senate rejected an effort by Senator Baucus to provide tax credits to renewable energy by closing loopholes for the oil industry that is taking all the money from my people and your people and the hard workers of America: 47 Democrats said yes; 34 Republicans said no.”